Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:46:14 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <20000711194614.V86887@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000709123023.04adf950@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:36:59PM -0600 References: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKGEKJJJAA.davids@webmaster.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000709004740.049f9740@localhost> <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKGEKJJJAA.davids@webmaster.com> <20000709180613.I14455@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000709123023.04adf950@localhost>
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-On [20000709 20:38], Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org) wrote: >At 02:36 AM 7/9/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>*sigh* I had intended to keep out of this, but I must say I like your >>analysis. I'd like to add that we're not really talking about Linux >>vs. BSD here, we're talking about ABIs. > >We're not just talking about ABIs, Greg, it's APIs too. And support. APIs? Then you can forget it. APIs are based on a few parts which will ALWAYS be different from system to system except for stuff like POSIX, XPG, SUSv2 and the like. That's the charm of different OS's. Just look at glibc, FreeBSD's libc, HP-UX's libc, Window's libc. Well, have fun. Those are so completely different aside from ANSI-C supported features it won't work. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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